Category: SaaS

Dec 14 2006

CTSpace dissected

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 December 2006

Yesterday’s announcement of a merger of BuildOnline and Citadon to form CTSpace (see earlier post) presents a positive view of the past history of the two firms, so it is worth analysing some of the background. Let’s start with BuildOnline. BuildOnline backstory BuildOnline was actually originally founded in Ireland and set out to become an e-marketplace …

Aconex, AEC, BIW, BuildOnline, Citadon, Citadon CW, construction collaboration, CTSpace, Howard Koenig, Mark Suster, merger, Project Extranet, ProjectNet, SaaS, UK, US
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Dec 14 2006

BuildOnline + Citadon = CTSpace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 December 2006

UK collaboration vendor BuildOnline is to merge with US-based vendor Citadon (see news release). The new business will trade as CTSpace. The move was confirmed late yesterday after several weeks of UK industry rumours (see 14 November BuildOnline and Koral, for example), and a succession of BO management changes over the past year or so, culminating in the …

AEC, BuildOnline, Citadon, construction collaboration, CTSpace, Howard Koenig, Mark Suster, merger, Project Extranet, SaaS, UK, US
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Dec 04 2006

BuildOnline “has merged with a US player”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
4 December 2006

At PodTech, there is a podcast of former BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster (see previous post) talking about Koral and his “past life” at BO. However, Robert Scoble, the interviewer, corrects himself to say BO “is still your present life as you’re on the board of directors,” to which Suster responds: “that’s true” (interpretation: Suster is …

AEC, BuildOnline, construction collaboration, extranet, Koral, Mark Suster, merger, UK, US
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Dec 04 2006

Who’s running BuildOnline UK?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
4 December 2006

Following my earlier post about UK-based collaboration vendor BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster and his US-based Koral venture, I now wonder if I should perhaps refer to him "as the former BuildOnline CEO". In the 3 December post to his Koral blog he twice mentions being Koral’s full-time CEO: We [Koral] will hopefully close on a …

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Dec 01 2006

ConVisia

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
1 December 2006

A new name to me since I started watching developments in the US market (in addition to that in the UK) is ConVisia. Founded in July 2005, this business initially said it was specialising in “instant wireless collaboration of complex documents … hosted wireless solutions [for whom] the initial audience … is the architecture, engineering …

Autodesk Buzzsaw, construction collaboration, Constructware, Convisia, e-Builder, extranet, ProjectTalk, US, wireless

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Nov 14 2006

BuildOnline and Koral

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 November 2006

BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster is running two companies. As well as running the UK-based construction collaboration vendor, Suster is also CEO of California-based Koral. This is an interesting development on two or three levels: first, Koral itself seems an interesting business with a strong Web2.0 content collaboration product; second, I wonder whether this will have an …

AEC, Alfresco, BIW, BuildOnline, construction collaboration, content collaboration, extranet, Koral, Mark Suster, UK, US, vendor
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Nov 08 2006

BIW’s growth continues – but what about the others?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 November 2006

The latest news release from UK construction collaboration vendor BIW Technologies says it has just completed its sixth straight year of growth. Turnover in 2006 (year ending 30 September) reached £4.6m – up from just over £4m in 2005. BIW has always been very open about its performance, regularly publishing news releases, but some of its UK competitors are more …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Asite, BIW, BuildOnline, Business Collaborator, Cadweb, Causeway, construction collaboration technologies, ePin, extranet, finances, profit, Sarcophagus, turnover, UK
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Nov 03 2006

“QS News” feature on mobile working

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
3 November 2006

UK trade magazine QS News has published a feature article written by me: Why ‘I’ always comes before ‘T’. In the article, I argue that providers and users of mobile IT solutions in the construction industry need to focus on ‘whole life information‘ instead of getting hung-up about technology hardware and connectivity issues. The key …

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Nov 01 2006

Ex-Constructware exec joins Citadon

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
1 November 2006

Looking across the Atlantic again, a news release tells me Gary Greenberger, former Vice President of Sales for Constructware, has joined rival collaboration technology vendor Citadon to head its sales operations in north and south America. The release says: "Mr Greenberger was instrumental in developing the company’s Software as a Service (SaaS) sales model and …

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Nov 01 2006

Google acquires JotSpot

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, SaaS
1 November 2006

In September 2005, I blogged about the JotSpot wiki product. Today, I learned that Google has bought JotSpot. Registration for new JotSpot accounts has been temporarily suspended while the systems are migrated to Google, but hopefully this move will open more people’s eyes to the day-to-day possibilities of Wikis.